1894_Northwestern_Purple_football_team

1894 Northwestern Purple football
1894 Northwestern Purple football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5
Head coach	A. A. Ewing (1st season);
Captain	Jon Oberne
	Seasons ← 1893 1895 →

1894 Northwestern Purple football team

American college football season

The 1894 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1894 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach A. A. Ewing, the Purple compiled a 4–5 record. Three of the victories were mid-week warm-up games against Evanston High School. In three games against major college opponents (Chicago and Illinois), the team lost by a combined total score of 148 to 0.^[1]^[2]

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"1894 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.

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"2017 Northwestern Football Media Guide" (PDF). Northwestern University. p. 106. Retrieved June 16, 2018.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6	at Chicago	Marshall Field Chicago	L 0–46
October 11	Evanston High	Evanston, IL	W 14–0
October 13	at Lake Forest	Lake Forest, IL	L 6–24
October 17	Evanston High	Evanston, IL	W 12–0
October 20	Beloit	Evanston, IL	L 6–42
October 24	Evanston High	Evanston, IL	W 22–6
October 26	Lake Forest	Evanston, IL	W 12–8
November 3	at Illinois	Illinois Field Champaign, IL (rivalry)	L 0–66
November 24	Chicago	Evanston, IL	L 0–36

v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Western Reserve		–		7	–	0	–	0
North Dakota Agricultural		–		2	–	0	–	0
Baldwin–Wallace		–		1	–	0	–	0
Buchtel		–		1	–	0	–	0
Michigan		–		9	–	1	–	1
Iowa Agricultural		–		5	–	1	–	0
Notre Dame		–		3	–	1	–	1
Minnesota		–		3	–	1	–	0
Washburn		–		3	–	1	–	0
Wittenberg		–		6	–	2	–	0
Doane		–		5	–	2	–	0
Wisconsin		–		5	–	2	–	0
Chicago		–		14	–	7	–	1
Beloit		–		6	–	3	–	0
Washington University		–		2	–	1	–	0
Ohio State		–		6	–	5	–	0
Illinois		–		4	–	3	–	0
Oberlin		–		4	–	3	–	1
Cincinnati		–		3	–	3	–	0
Drake		–		2	–	2	–	0
Mount Union		–		4	–	5	–	0
Lake Forest		–		3	–	4	–	0
Miami (OH)		–		1	–	2	–	0
Ohio Wesleyan		–		1	–	3	–	0
Rush Medical		–		3	–	6	–	0
Northwestern		–		1	–	5	–	0
Ohio		–		0	–	1	–	0
South Dakota		–		0	–	2	–	0

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